Problem accessing samba share / permission denied

Question

i have installed samba and want to share a directory to everyone in my home network. Everything works fine, if i share for example a directory inside my ubuntu user home directory:

home/drwade/temp/samba/anonymous

here i can access the share without any problem. This is the section of my /etc/samba/smb.conf:

file:

[Anonymous]
    path = /home/drwade/temp/samba/anonymous
    browsable = yes
    writable = yes
    read only = no
    force user = nobody
    public = yes

I have now installed a 3 TB harddrive into my pc and formatted it with ext3 and chowned the whole drive to my ubuntu user. Then i have added it to the /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[Anonymous2]
    path = /media/drwade/DATA/samba/anonymous
    browsable = yes
    writable = yes
    read only = no
    force user = nobody
    public = yes

When i try to access the Anonymous2 share on my Windows 7 machine, i get an permission denied error.

Could this be an mounting problem? have i forgot to configure something else?

Solution

By design /media/$USER ( /media/drwade in this case ) will allow only one user to get past it and that is drwade. You are forcing the user to be "nobody". nobody != drwade so access is denied. Change your force user in the [Anonymous2] share definition to drwade:

force user = drwade